Sanskrit Educational Software: Integrating linguistic programs into automated Sanskrit translation exercises

Grant Details

Amount: 3000.00

Project Start Date: 01/01/05

Status: Completed (Currently Active)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Sanskrit

Project Level:

Project Skills:

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Peter Scharf (scharf@brown.edu)

Classics, Box 1856
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-2720

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Secondary Contact:
Malcolm Hyman

mhyman@archimedes.fas.harvard.edu

The currently proposed project will allow the integration of certain linguistic programs with educational software currently being developed by the author in conjunction with the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown (STG) under a grant from Brown's Computing and Information Services. The educational software utilizes unprecedented mechanisms for immediate feedback on exercises using Sanskrit linguistic software developed by Scharf and Hyman. It applies lexically based phonological and morphological software to student analyses of sentences in Sanskrit-English translation exercises to confirm correct steps and flag errors in sandhi analysis, inflectional identification, vocabulary, and syntax. Malcolm Hyman will be engaged to write a framework to convert a set of sandhi rules written in a modified regular expression syntax to Perl executable code.